Foreign Takings

In lands across the seas, animation in comedy movies or animation in scary live-action movies is all the rage.

The minions of “Despicable Me 2" edged the monsters of Guillermo del Toro’s “Pacific Rim” at the international box office over the weekend, just as they did Stateside. ...

"DM 2's" overall global gross is now $472 million. ...

Disney's "Monsters University" was third internationally, adding $30.2 million from 46 territories. That gave it a total of $236.4 million from overseas, and a global total of nearly $475 million after four weeks. ...

So Minions and Monsters are running neck and neck, but of course Despicable Me 2 has had a week's less release time.

INTERNATIONAL B.O. -- WEEKEND GROSSES -- (WORLDWIDE TOTALS)

Despicable Me 2 -- $55,500,000 -- ($472,437,420)

Pacific Rim --$53,000,000 -- ($91,300,000)

Grown Ups 2 -- $1,700,000 -- ($44,200,000)

Monsters University -- $30,200,000 -- ($474,200,000)

World War Z -- $22,400,000 -- ($423,086,920)

The Lone Ranger -- $12,700,000 -- ($119,100,000)

The Heat -- $8,100,000 -- ($128,463,500)

Man Of Steel -- $13,300,000 -- ($619,194,878)

After Earth -- $13,700,000 -- ($214,775,142)

White House Down -- $1,800,000 -- ($82,662,933)